[Assam] Assamese Media's role on Arvinda Rajkhowa's Arrrest

Mon Dec 7 19:33:20 PST 2009

Yes. We seem to agree on the 'moot' points!

Uttam Kumar Borthakur

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From: Sushanta Kar <pragyan.tsc50 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, 7 December, 2009 10:11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assamese Media's role on Arvinda Rajkhowa's Arrrest

Dear
Uttamda 
I do agree with you in almost all the point except like this one, "It is interesting to note that it needs Chinese persuasion to keep alive the demand of sovereignty"
Chinese are only using the contradiction within for a time  being. Tomorrow, if India lean a little more towards China and ASEAN they will treat ULFA as Bangladesh did with them. 
Yes, I do agree that ULFA has little public support and mass base. their basic fault is that they even didn't tried  for it. they might be influenced by the UTOPIA of Netajee Subhash ( Should I mention what UTOPIA?) 
But, still, I do agree with Chanda while he says,"The fact remains that  arguments such as those made by Prafulla Gogoi and others, namely negotiating with the Nagas without Phizo and implying that the fire of that uprising has been extinguished are patently absurd and are not believable even to the most gullible."

ULFA will have to be talked with at any condition if the establishment and the Assmese Middle class want to get rid of them. Other wise the problem will take a complicated shape like Nagas. 
I do agree with you that Automony could have been better demand from ULFA's side, but Chanda also true while he said, The most obvious and credible one would have been for the Indian state and its puppets in Assam to PROVE, by putting in place the reforms that are so direly needed and prove to the people of that  land that better governance and a fair shake and broad-based progress is entirely possible under Delhi's rule.  Surely thirty-five years was long enough a time to show something for it."
This only proof that, you know it better, the Indian Government and their Assamese Pupet has no intention to do that. they are quiet satisfied with present statuesque.
Basically they are like all other capitalists on the globe --totalitarian Nationalist. Whatever policy of federalism they have taken up or they are proud of--- these are result of Indian Ground reality. The Diversity of Indian society compelled  them to follow a type of loos federalism against their wishes.They allways try to accommodate the dissidents in exchange of as minimum they can offer keeping intact the Indian Elite's interests, This is what they call Great Indian Democracy. The operation against Tribal Middle India itself prove how authoritarian Indian establishment can be.    
But, again I do not deny the possibilities of peaceful method   altogether. At least the method should have been tested. If the Indian Establishment didn't achieved anything by ignoring other fractions of NSCN, the NSCN also didn't achieved anything either. Though they have better mass-base in comparison to ULFA.
The problem with NSCN is that they are ignoring other ethnic groups in the proposed NAGALIM. ULFA is practically ignoring every one, including Assamese.
Autonomy should be bargained first. But, for that too, ULFA will have to provide answers on what will be the fate of marginalized ethnic groups of Assam.
Multi-layered autonomy could be the answer to the all ethnic problem in Assam.
Actually, whenever any talk with ULFA will take place,if it happens at all , these questions will surely come to the forefront.

Sushanta Kar
P.S: As I wrote in my previous post, the Write up of Subir Bhaumik appeared in Dainik Janambhumi Today, in Assamese.           

2009/12/7 Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com>

>It is interesting to note that it needs Chinese persuassion to keep alive the demand of sovereignty.
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>*** Not so simple! While the argument could be made to taunt the ULFA or other such insurgents, freedom fighters and the like, it is hardly an argument for the thoughtful for or against such a movement or for its justification or absence thereof.
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>The fact remains that  arguments such as those made by Prafulla Gogoi and others, namely negotiating with the Nagas without Phizo and implying that the fire of that uprising has been extinguished are patently absurd and are not believable even to the most gullible. Too bad it takes someone like Subir Bhowmik to point it out in an article in a Bengali paper.  Not to suggest Kharkhowas are not up to realizing such, just that their voices don't get the exposure they deserve.
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>>The autonomy within constitutional frame-work could have been bargained, without waging a war,---.
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>*** Aah, the power of what could have been! Indeed there were so many possibilities. The most obvious and credible one would have been for the Indian state and its puppets in Assam to PROVE, by putting in place the reforms that are so direly needed and prove to the people of that  land that better governance and a fair shake and broad-based progress is entirely possible under Delhi's rule.  Surely thirty-five years was long enough a time to show something for it. Who are we kidding? 
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>capitulates before the Indian State, there are numerous marginalised elements churned out by the Indian system to take up their fallen flag. Unless this source is cured, we will have enough fodder for waging our war of arguments here.
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>*** And THAT is the point. 
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>>Thanks for sharing Subir Bhowmik's report. Yes, his information are quality information and he is good at his analyses too. It is interesting to note that it needs Chinese persuassion to keep alive the demand of sovereignty. The autonomy within constitutional frame-work could have been bargained, without waging a war, in the manner the likes of Akhil Gogoi are doing by involving the affected people at large to fulfill their kind of demands. But, if the ULFA has to come down from their position of sovereignty, they better capitulate and beg apology from the people of Assam for all the carnage that can be attributed to them. In that case, where is the justification of any talks with them: after all, the movement initiated by the ULFA, whether right or wrong, was not to make Sri Rajkhowa or Sri Baruah Chief Minister/ Home Minister, as was agenda of Assam Movement leaders like Sri Mahanta and Late Phukan, or was it? And even if the present ULFA
>>capitulates before the Indian State, there are numerous marginalised elements churned out by the Indian system to take up their fallen flag. Unless this source is cured, we will have enough fodder for waging our war of arguments here.
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